Watch trailer for docuseries ‘Dear Mama’ about 2Pac and his mother
nme.comDear Mama, which centres around 2Pac (Tupac Shakur) and his mother Afeni, has been released by FX – watch below.The brief teaser for the five-part docuseries was released to coincide with Mother’s Day in the US.
It shows images of Shakur, with a voiceover from Afeni describing a lesson she taught her son.“It was my responsibility to teach 2Pac how to survive his reality,” Afeni Shakur says in the clip. “So, 2Pac do something wrong, take your little sorry self in that corner, get the New York Times and let’s have a debate about it.
Not a discussion, a debate. Let me hear what your idea is, stand up, defend it.”Dear Mama is named after the 1995 2Pac track, which is a tribute to Afeni and the love and respect that the rapper held for his mother.
The docuseries is directed by Allen Hughes and “told through the eyes of the people who knew them best”.Hughes was behind the July 2017 HBO documentary The Defiant Ones, which focused on the creative and business partnership between Dr.
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